The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT jobs advertised for the Stevenage region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Stevenage region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank - 40 35
Permanent jobs citing Silverlight 0 6 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stevenage - 2.941% 1.508%
As % of the Application Development category - 5.405% 6.250%
Number of salaries quoted 0 6 3
Average salary - £47,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +11.76%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
All Application Development
Stevenage
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
27 111 48
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stevenage 18.49% 54.41% 24.12%
Number of salaries quoted 10 109 46
Average salary £35,000 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.22% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £36,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £59,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Silverlight
Hertfordshire

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Silverlight across the Stevenage region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Stevenage Silverlight Jobs Demand Trend

Silverlight
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Silverlight across the Stevenage region.

Stevenage Silverlight Salary Trend

Silverlight
Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stevenage region citing Silverlight also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Silverlight.

1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) VB
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) VB6

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stevenage region citing Silverlight also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Silverlight. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) IT Support
1 2 (100.00%) Development Engineer
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) VB
1 2 (100.00%) VB6